GoldenRation

Alright there Paul, thanx for the feedback. Had a bit of a laugh noticing my typo on the jobscheduler. Not much difference after correcting it though, but the first step of "cleaning" my cfg. Bloom on or off does not really impact performance much on my system. Car traffic was at 10% first but hearing from jim in another thread that it does not seem to affect fps much, i tried for 40, aaand the impact was so-so. I think i will revert back to 12 or something though just in case. Lod too high? Hmmm ok, will revert back, hopefully not so many objects pooping up in the scenery. Other than that, will try out your suggestions. Although you have to understand, that water is definetly not normal. Another problem that it stands still, meaning in dx10 i do not seem to have any wave animation. The texture kind of moves slightly but without any "wave effect/animation" of any kind. Nevertheless, thanks!

Sorry been away for a while. Could not figure out how to attach a file so here is a simple copy and paste of my fsx.cfg. Sorry for the long post this creates. Cannot get the water to loose the whiteness, that is my primary objective. Moreover Are the BP and other tweaks relevant for my system or not? Also since my GPU is optimus (Intel 4000 - GT 650, simply technology that takes away freedom of choice!), there are always two displays written in the cfg. 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Thanks for the heads up. Water is still unfixable unfortunatly, and yes the setting is @ 5 in the cfg file. Interesting thing with the car traffic, ama have to try that out. I thought they were the biggest frame killers so havent really tried anything above 12%. What about the manually input tweaks in the cfg file? Is Affinitymask helpful or not? the i7 3610qm is a turbo boost processor, meaning it "overclocks" itself when under heavy load and underclocks itself when not in demand. Pretty much the same the with the mobile GPU (GT 650m). And BP=0, if I try BP=1 such as Paul here, what should be the RejectThreshold? Will post my fsx.cfg and inspector settings as per request.

Here is a screenshot explaining the weird "milky" water. BR

Greetings, I've been following this forum specially after the dx10 shader fix. Seeing how helpful everybody is I thought I'd consult you as experts right now as I struggle to spend time flying rather than tweaking. Right now tweaking/testing is at 60% while actual flying is 40%. I have consulted NickNs tweaks, read kostas guide and many others on tweaking fsx for smooth flying however I cannot seem to find relevant guides for laptops. I do know laptops are not the best way to enjoying smooth flights in fsx, but bare with me as I am working abroad and traveling a lot, not having a fixed location yet = no desktop pc. I got the ASUS N56VZ with the ivy bridge i7 3610qm running @ 3.2ghz together with a gt 650m. Within the fsx.cfg I have the affinitymask=14 and the bp=0 together with he highmemfix tweak. Honestly I do not notice any difference. Nevertheless dx10 is smoother for me too than dx9, and I want to keep trying reaching smooth flight in dx10 with this laptop. Addons are rex:e, mytraffic 5.4, gex and recently shade. On to the points that need fixing: 1. The sparkling wave effect provided by rex is not working under dx10. Instead I get still water, meaning no moving waves, and a rather weird milky effect on the water (daytime). Resetting to default water fixes it, but I would like to have realistic water. Rex water works in dx9. Also in dx10 the water reflection is rather pixelated.. 2. Clouds seem to be a frame killer. Non-hd clouds from rex are used. 2048x2048 pretty much yields the same result on frames as 1024x1024 do. 3. Toolbox help not showing in dx10 vc, this is mentioned in another thread on this forum. I guess no fix yet. Do not know what heading or crs i set in specific planes without the tooltip(?) popping up. 4. Does as2012 work better than rex in dx10? In terms of textures specifically water. 5. Shimmering in the water when reflecting land, mid2x and high2x all the same. My fps is locked at 30, which is achievable in most areas except airports and cities. Car traffic @12% and aviation traffic @20%. In short, if anyone knows anything helpful about fsx+laptop, please share your insights. Looking forward to intersting discussions, and thanx in advance!